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Jo Baer, born 1929, is an American modern artist, whose
works are associated with minimalist art. [1] She
began exhibiting her work at the Fischbach Gallery, New York, and
other venues for contemporary art in the mid-1960s.[2]
Life and
work
Baer's early work was informed by an admiration of the Abstract Expressionists — Gorky, Motherwell,
and Rothko — a
movement she later rejected, in favor of painterly hard-edge
work.[3]
In 1975, following a retrospective at Whitney Museum in New
York, Baer moved from abstraction to minimalist work.[4] This is
in a hard-edge style, encompassing a
series of large and small squares, and vertical and horizontal
rectangles with borders. She then painted diptych and triptych
groupings, and worked with paintings in diagonal and curved
forms.
In the 1950s Baer also worked as a photographic model, including
nude work, and she has claimed in an interview that (by
coincidence) she modelled for the nude photo in Richard
Hamilton's famous 1956 collage
Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So
Appealing?.[5]
Collections
Baer is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; [6]the Art Institute of Chicago; and
the Seattle Art Museum.
References
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Dia FoundationRetrieved
October 3, 2009
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[1]The Tate, LondonRetrieved October, 3, 2009
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[2]Online bio
retrieved October 3, 2009
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Carol Diehl, Jo Baer at
Alexander Gray Associates, Art in America, October 2007,
p.211Retrieved October 2, 2009
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John-Paul Stonard (2007), "Pop in the Age of Boom:
Richard Hamilton's ‘Just what is it that makes today's homes so
different, so appealing?’"PDF, The
Burlington Magazine, September 2007, p. 619
- ^
the Tate
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